What starts wars? Religion, some say. A little-noticed feature of the Russia-Ukraine situation is the Synod of Kyiv of 2018. Putin passionately followed this Church synod, and when he learned of the result, he snapped. The result, he said, would be bloody. See, for example VOA News. OBSERVATION: His reaction was triggered, however, by religion gone wrong. The Church departed from Nicea's "I believe in one Church". It revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of God's Kingdom. Put it this way, that if the Church had correctly interpreted God's Kingdom, history might look quite different. This casts a new light on the importance of Church-state relations. How close this post may be to the truth should become evident fairly soon, in what happens to the Church in Ukraine.
POSTSCRIPT: The European Council on Foreign Relations wrote in a policy brief on 30 May 2019, "An average Westerner may well have overlooked the potentially seismic
geopolitical event of 6 January 2019. On that snowy Sunday – Epiphany in
western Christianity; Christmas Eve in Ukraine – the 39-year-old
Metropolitan of Kyiv, Epiphanius, received tomos from the Constantinople Patriarchate."
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